32 cards each
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 32 cards
Horishige chose to depict everyday Edo views but was innovative in his compositions, employing extreme cropping of foreground and background elements, utilizing high-angle and bird's-eye perspectives, and frequently incorporating "zoom" effects. Made in the style of the Utagawa school, he used a vertical format, a departure from the horizontal format used in his previous major print series.
Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, 32 cards
Hiroshige traveled the length of the Tōkaidō from Edo (now modern day Tokyo) to Kyoto and back as part of an official delegation, and sketched the new scapes he encountered on the way. Upon arriving home, he turned these sketches into ukiyo-e prints for The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, a road still extant today.
32 cards each
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 32 cards
Horishige chose to depict everyday Edo views but was innovative in his compositions, employing extreme cropping of foreground and background elements, utilizing high-angle and bird's-eye perspectives, and frequently incorporating "zoom" effects. Made in the style of the Utagawa school, he used a vertical format, a departure from the horizontal format used in his previous major print series.
Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, 32 cards
Hiroshige traveled the length of the Tōkaidō from Edo (now modern day Tokyo) to Kyoto and back as part of an official delegation, and sketched the new scapes he encountered on the way. Upon arriving home, he turned these sketches into ukiyo-e prints for The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, a road still extant today.
